Leonid meteor shower to peak above the skies of Connecticut this weekend
The Leonid meteor shower, which started on Nov. 3, will peak above the Connecticut skies beginning on Nov. 17.
Amid Earth's heat records, scientists report another bump upward in annual carbon emissions
Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon ...
Scientists Puzzled by Military Satellite That Appears to Have Been Moved to a Distant Location
Scientists are baffled after the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, which dates back to 1969, moved to an entirely different ...
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Congress Is About to Hold a UFO Hearing. Here Are the Strange Things Washingtonians Are Seeing in the Sky.
Just before midnight on July 19, 1952, a Washington National Airport air traffic controller spotted seven unusual objects on radar—first hovering about 15 miles south-southwest of the city, later ...
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Stem cells grown in space show ‘super powers’ — but there’s a catch
Instead of sending tourists to space, scientists have found a more practical use for the final frontier: growing better ...
Washington Times2d
Earth’s biggest polluters are not sending leaders to U.N. climate talks in year of weather extremes
He announced an 81% emissions reduction target on 1990 levels by 2035, in line with the Paris Agreement goal to limit warming ...
Hurricane Helene’s landfall produced atmospheric waves seen 55 miles above Earth
When Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida with 140-mph winds, the impacts on the ground were deadly, and that power ...
Was 'Snowball Earth' a global event? New study delivers best proof yet
Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...
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NASA AWE Instrument on the International Space Station Spots Something in the Atmosphere 55 Miles Above Earth
NASA says its Atmospheric Waves Instrument (AWE) recorded a series of intense gravity waves at high altitudes during ...
Why does everything look flat even though the Earth is round?
Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...
NASA astronauts on readjusting to life on Earth: ‘It’s hard to sit’
The astronauts remained tight-lipped about the nature of the medical issue that had left an as-yet-undisclosed crew member ...
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Did plate tectonics give rise to life? Groundbreaking new research could crack Earth's deepest mystery.
Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.